What Is Continuous Delivery?   Continuous delivery (CD) refers to a software engineering approach where teams produce ...

Data governance has long been the backbone of responsible data management, ensuring that organizations maintain high ...

Where Risk Gets Mispriced  It’s easy to think of AI as clean. Digital. Intangible. It lives in the cloud, responds instantly, ...

We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new data sources, and analytics all require flexibility. Graphs deliver it in spades ...

The series of articles is in three parts. Part 1, set the stage, describing the basic differences between UML and the various entity/relationship modeling notations – and how they can be reconciled.

Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

At some point, there will be full stack data-centric architectures available to buy, to use as a service or as an open source project. At the moment, as far as we know, there isn’t a full stack ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...

Running a business with dirty data is like trying to drive a car blindfolded — it’s only a matter of time before disaster strikes. Dirty data doesn’t just create inefficiencies, it drains resources at ...

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but ...

Over the years, I have been asked several times to consolidate all the roles and responsibilities necessary to deliver a successful Data Governance program into a single article. In this article, I am ...